The Stolen Bicycle Reading Comprehension Worksheet
The Stolen Bicycle Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 3rd Grade readers a short story about a missing bike, four multiple choice questions, a vocabulary item, a written response and an answer key.
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The Stolen Bicycle Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives third graders a short story with a real problem in it. A boy leaves his blue bike at the library rack, comes back out to an empty rack, and has to decide what to do about it. Two days later the bike comes home, because a neighbour read the card the boy taped to the library door. Students read the 225-word passage, then answer four multiple choice questions, one vocabulary item and one written response.
The questions in The Stolen Bicycle Reading Comprehension Worksheet are built for third grade rather than for recall. One asks why the rack was empty, one asks why the boy left a card at all, one asks how he felt when he first saw the empty rack, and the fourth asks for the main idea of the whole story. None of the four can be answered by copying a sentence, and the written response asks for the evidence behind the feeling. This 3rd grade reading comprehension worksheet works as a reading group text, an independent centre, or a quick comprehension check.
What’s Included
- A full-colour illustrated story page with an original 225-word passage
- Four multiple choice questions on cause, purpose, feeling and main idea
- One vocabulary in context item drawn from the passage
- One written response question asking for evidence from the text
- A complete answer key with a sample written response
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- Every multiple choice item is inference or main idea, so copying a sentence will not work.
- The story resolves through what a person chooses to do, which gives the main idea something to be about.
- The vocabulary item sends the child back into the passage to find the word in its own sentence.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
- Ask students to underline the sentence that proves each answer before they bubble it.
- Stop after the second paragraph and have children predict how it ends.
- Talk about what the boy does differently afterwards, and why.
- Use the written response as a shared writing lesson on the board.
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